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Andrew Lang
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“They hear like ocean on a western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sonnet The Odyssey (1879), in Introduction to his translation (with S. H. Butcher) of Homer's Odyssey.
“If indeed there be a god in heaven.”
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Andrew Lang (1879), with S. H. Butcher, prose translation of Homer's Odyssey, Book XVII, line 484.
“Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.”
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Andrew Lang (1900) "[ Anthropology and Religion]", In: The Making of Religion, (Chapter II), Longmans, Green, and C°, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 39–64.
“Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1910 Speech, quoted in Alan L. Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977), as reported in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 488.
“There’s a joy without canker or cark, There’s a pleasure eternally new, ’T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that’s ancient and blue.”
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here’s a pot with a cot in a park In a park where the peach-blossoms blew, Where the lovers eloped in the dark, Lived, died and were changed into two Bright birds that eternally flew Through the boughs of the may, as they sang; ’T is a tale was undoubtedly true In the reign of the Emperor Hwang.”
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The windy lights of Autumn flare; I watch the moonlit sails go by; I marvel how men toil and fare, The weary business that they play! Their voyaging is vanity, And fairy gold is all their gain, And all the winds of winter cry, “My Love returns no more again.”
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source